Iceland cancelled its presidential election, originally scheduled to be held on Thursday, 26 June 2008 throughout the country.
Earlier in the year, incumbent president Olaf Ragnar Grimsson announced he would stand for another term; in keeping with tradition, no other candidates stepped up to contest the office. Iceland presidential election prediction: Olaf Ragnar Grimsson is the […]
A referendum election was held Sunday, 1 June 2008 in Switzerland to decide on a number of questions submitted by the people.
The referendum vote included three questions. Voters overwhelmingly approved an initiative to submit naturalization decisions to the local assembly. Swiss referendum prediction: The people’s initiative supporting community decisions in naturalization applications wins approval.
The people […]
Parliamentary elections in the European nation of Georgia were held Wednesday, 21 May 2008; a large percentage of the nation’s nearly 3.5 million voters went to the polls.
Many voters expressed their preference for the National Movement Party of President Mikheil Saakashvili, which won the majority of seats in Georgia’s new Parliament; the Christian Democratic Alliance […]
The Dominican Republic held its presidential election on Friday, May 16, 2008.
The ballot included the names of six main contenders for the office. In the weeks prior to the election, incumbent President Leonel Fernández Reyna, representing the Dominican Liberation Party, led in the polls, followed closely by Miguel Vargas Maldonado of the Dominican Revolutionary Party. […]
Democrats in the state of West Virginia went to the polls on Tuesday, 13 May 2008 to express their preference for the Democratic Party’s Presidential candidate.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois squared off, campaigning for the lion’s share of the state’s 39 delegates.
Early polls showed Clinton leading Obama […]
The Republic of Serbia held a pre-term parliamentary election on Sunday, 11 May 2008, the same day as local elections.
At stake were 250 in the National Assembly. Voters were divided on the question of Kosovo and Serbian membership in the European Union. Pro-Western President Boris Tadi? was narrowly defeated at the polls; the party of […]
The Republican Party held its primary election in Nebraska on Tuesday, 13 May 2008. Up for grabs were 33 delegates to the Republican party’s nominating convention later this summer.
Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona had all but secured the Republican Party’s nomination for the 2008 Presidential election; nonetheless, voters turned out to voice their preference. […]
The ruling military government in Myanmar held a national referendum on Saturday, 10 May 2008, inviting voters to accept or reject a new constitution.
Adoption of the new constitution required approval of more than 50 percent of eligible voters; the referendum failed to win the necessary votes. Myanmar referendum prediction: the results of the 2008 Myanmar […]
Voters in the state of North Carolina went to the polls on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 to mark their preference in the race to name the Democratic party’s candidate for November’s Presidential election.
Pre-election polls showed Senator Barack Obama of Illinois leading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by a wide margin among Democratic voters. Future prediction for […]
On Thursday, 1 May 2008, local council elections were held throughout England in 137 English Local Authorities.
In each of England’s 36 metropolitan boroughs, one-third of the council was up for election. Eighty-one district authority councils were up for election in whole or in part; most councils saw one-third of the council seats open. Future prediction […]